The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-05
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
The new stores at Quincy ali appear to be
doing well.
A jew fish weighing eighty pounds at
! tracted quite a crowd at Arcadia Monday.
A $1,000 cement walk from Cocoa to
| South Rockledge is the latest proposed im-
provement
There will be about forty-fve schools in
DeSoto county, with an attendance of about
1900 scholars
Inquiries about Palatka and Putnam
county continue to come in every day to
the Board of Trade.
The County Commissioners will receive
bids up to tomorrow for the preparation of
a map of Lake county.
The furniture and books for the county
offices have been received, and Lake county
Will now move along in line with her older
neighbors.
A little daughter of Crow Pickett, who
lives few miles south of Quincy, was bit
ten by snake a few days ago. The wound
is just above the ankle, and it is hoped will
not prove serious.
At Quincy few days ago DIR. Wragg
amputated several fingers on the hand of a
little girl. The child got her hand mixed up
with the saws of a gin and it is wonder
that she did not lose her arm.
W H. Shelter. of Concord, patentee for
a rice beating and cleaning machine, has
sold the patentright TO his machine III three
fourths of the territory of the United States
for consideration of fifteen thousand
dollars
A few days ago DR.. Thomas F. Munroe
extracted grain from little negro girls
ear. Having been in the ear several days
the grain was swelled, and had become so
oip fli TINT tba doctor waS Ohlipad In adj
minister chloroform before he could per-
form the operation.
Cedar Keys was considerably worked up
last week over the killing of Malty Mutton
JOY, a colored man, by Thomas w. Davis,
an employee of the Florida Railway and
Navigation Company. The fact that Davis
was allowed to be bailed displeased the
negroes at Quincy
Not enough signatures have been procured
in Manatee county to call an election on the
whisky question. Arcadia sent in a peti-
tion signed by seventy registered voters,
and if the other districts had done half
as well our commissioners would have been
able to have called the election.
Kelly B. Harvey, of DeSoto county, was
arranged before Judge Gardner at Gaines
vile Friday, for obtaining goods under false
pretenseS He had induced Mr.. Andrus to
sign a deed under some false plea. After
hearing the evidence, Judge Gardnerput him
under $500 bonds for his appearance at the
Circuit Court.
w. A. Minis was arrested at Gainesville
Friday, on a charge of unlawfully selling a
sugar mill and boilers belonging to Leroy
Chesser, and the evidence was such that
Minis was bound over to appear at the Cir
cult Court. Rev. NJ Simmons and W.
Walker were arrested for setting the Jerus-
alem church on fire, but the cases were con-
tinued until Saturday.
At Titusville the preliminary hearing of
Capt E. H. Rice, charged with being ac-
cessory to the murder of g. A. Hoyt, after
the fact, before Justice c. d. Puryear,
which has been engaging the attention of
the public since Monday last, was brought
to close Thursday night, by remanding
the prisoner to the county Jail, in default OF
| So, 900 bond, to await the action of the
grand jury on the assembling of the Circuit
Court, ON the third Monday in October
next.
Deputy Sheriff Dee Williams returned to
Ocala from Gainesville Sunday with f.
Fernley in his charge. He was arrested at
the instance of the Bank of Ocala, John F.
Dunn, President, for obtaining money under
false pretenses. 1t occurred during the
orange season, when Mr.. Fernley was ope-
rting refrigerator cars and forwarding
oranges. Drafts were drawn through the
Bank of Ocala on Chicago parties, one of
which amounting to S437 was dishonored-
The claim now made is that Fernley had no
such authority. The prisoner was bound
over in the sum of $500 to await the action
of the grand jury, but was subsequently re-
leased on a writ of habeas corpus.
Under date of Sept 3, the Starke, Fla,
correspondence of the MORNING NEWS
writes as follows: "Now that we have the
courthouse at Starke building, business and
| improvements of every kind are looking up.
The orange crop of this vicinity is very
large and maturing rapidly, although the
greater portion of the FRUITS rusty Visi-
tors are beginning to come in, and many
who have been spending the summer North
| are returning. A very strong company has
been formed here for the establishment of a
bank. The venerable DIR. Talbird, of the
First Baptist Church of Starke, will leave
us next week for Switzerland. He will be
greatly missed. Rev. Mr. Patterson, of
Windsor, Fla, has been called to the
| church, and will move his family here
| during the next ten days.
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